Can we please normalize people who are good with kids not being forced to take care of them.
I love my nieces and nephews, But I am their Aunt not their parent or their grandparent and when they come to Gradma's house it should be grandma and grandpa watching them not Aunt Relsey. Aunt Relsey is trying to pack and get everything figured out because she has one day left before she's moving out and going to collage. I am sick of taking care of these kids and making sure they don't die.
My parents decided it would be a good Idea to take them swimming yesterday, a 3 year old, a 4 year old who don't know how to swim. A very loud destructive 8 year old who can't really swim, and a very loud destructive 13 year old who can swim but not really. 8 decided they wanted to have this large inflatable dolphin and play on it but he's playing with it on the steps and slaming it into 4 and 3, But naturally I'm at fault for ruining his fun when I tell him to take the stupid thing else were. Not to mention after the dolphin fiasco is finished Mom get's the 3 and 4 year old started on the water slide. Does she wait to catch them at the bottom after the first time, no of course not. She goes back to talking with her friends and doesn't even notice the two climbing back up and sliding down, It's a good thing I'm observant, with noise 8 and 13 were making and the obliviousness of the parents we would have two drowned toddlers on our hands. I make it to the bottom of the slide to catch them before they both do but now I'm stuck catching kids down a slide, for a hecking hour.
Eventually I got fed up with watching the two of them so I told Mom, hey I need a break, and she's like that's fine I'll take a kid and Dad will take the other, and so I get out of the pool and I'm living my best life and I look up to witness my dad telling 4 that she can slide down and then look away from the slide and starting up a conversation as she falls into the pool. And Mom did almost the same thing with 3, and then they laughed it off. Guess who got to do damage control, me, guess who had to sprint across a yard to rescue a kid me, guess who had to sprint across a pool to rescue a kid after being assured that the kid was being watched, me.
Guess who's in charge of bed time, who's in charge of breakfast and lunch, in charge of responding to crying and arguing and them getting hurt. It's me, and they aren't my kids. Like The parents said the kids could stay, my parents agreed to watch them and then tossed them on to me. and I get it, I'm good with kids but I didn't agree to this I'm just doing it so they don't get neglected, and because I love them but it sucks and I hate it.